Tag Biology

Biology “boot camp” to help incoming students through maze of UW–Madison biology

May 20, 2010

Incoming biology students at University of Wisconsin–Madison will get extensive new help navigating the tricky transition from high school to a university that has 31 different majors related to biology, funded by a $1.4 million undergraduate science education grant announced today by the Howard Hughes Medical Institute.

Science writer tackles Darwin’s ‘Secret Life’

January 20, 2010

Charles Darwin let more than two decades pass between his return to England aboard HMS Beagle and the publication of "Origin of the Species."

Evolution institute named for pioneering UW–Madison geneticist

November 19, 2009

A few days before the 150th anniversary of the "Origin of Species," Charles Darwin's epochal book on evolution, plans for a new evolution institute moved closer to final approval at the University of Wisconsin–Madison.

Expert on relationship between animals and bacteria wins Guggenheim honor

June 18, 2009

University of Wisconsin–Madison developmental biologist Margaret McFall-Ngai has been awarded a prestigious Guggenheim Fellowship, a one-year grant that will support her investigation into how animals interact with their natural complement of microbes.

As biology booms, students flock to the lab

May 14, 2009

Since the mid-1990s, UW–Madison has experienced a surge of interest in biology, a phenomenon that has challenged the folks who run UW–Madison's biggest portal to this hot field: Introductory Biology 151 and 152 in the College of Letters and Science.

Intrepid explorers and the search for the origin of species

February 12, 2009

A UW–Madison professor of genetics will give the plenary lecture at the annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science on Friday, Feb. 13.

New evolutionary biology option looks to the future of science

January 28, 2009

Charles Darwin would be proud of the way the biology major has evolved during the last academic year.